What They Found

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***UPDATE: These clips were taken from a 19 minute speech at the TED conference in 2006, and can be found here.

This really resonates with what i’ve been reading lately about in my special education course.  With “exceptional learners”, it’s important to focus on the abilities of the student, not just the disabilities.  It doubly resonates in regards to having creativity educated out of us.  I’ve recently been advised to read Mindset, by Carol Dweck.  According to my source, there’s a good bit of psychobabble bullshit (what’s the origin of this phrase?), but it has some good things to say about having a growth mindset, not being afraid to make mistakes.  Definitely something I feel like I’ve had educated out of me.   Where’d the creative little GT kid go, the one who tried to make wax models of the atom bomb for class and built self-standing articulated ATST walkers from k’nex and my own imagination?  I hope that geek’s still in here somewhere, I miss him.  Anyone else feel like they’ve got their inner creative child gagged and duct taped in a car trunk somewhere?